“Painted in 1909, Sonnenuntergang (Sunset) is one of the earliest of Nolde’s celebrated seascapes… For Nolde, who grew up on the coast and was to spend almost all his life near the ocean, the sea was an imposing and powerful presence, an elemental force of nature that was an important and recurrent feature of both … Continue reading Emil Nolde: Sonnenuntergang